Essay On Traditional Values In Bhutan

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In 1616 Zhabdrung arrived in Bhutan, so he realized that Bhutan needs to separate the identity to differentiate from the neighboring countries particularly with Tibet. Many exclusive customs, Traditions were created to highlight the unique ways of Bhutanese life to the outside world. Bhutan has made vast change in the development. So this affects difference between the revered traditional values and appealing modern values. The Modernization has therefore imposed modern values over gradually fading traditional values of Bhutan. This explains how Bhutan’s development plan and Modernization complement each other to dilute traditional values. Bhutanese people nowadays work hard but they don’t realize that Bhutan is losing our traditional values in terms of dress code, culture and conserving our tradition.
Bhutanese society is witnessing the change in the values that has been surrounded in us by the forefathers. However, this is under threat due to the important blending of modern values into its society (Cline, 2011). Modern technology such as Internet and social media and then incorporated into the lifestyle of the Bhutanese people. The Government of …show more content…

Thus, it could be argued that the difference between modern and traditional values imposes a gap between generations of elders and the youth. There are differences in their outlook which either support or disfavor a particular value which is either the modern or traditional. The children nowadays hardly find their time for their family and prefer to be lost in the cyber world. The old age culture of children sitting around the fire after dinner, with their grandparents ‘orally transmitting values through stories’ (Bhutan Journal of Research and Development, 2013, pp 59), have been

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